Selected Publications, Presentations, and Blogs
"PacketFu: A Mid-Level Packet Manipulation Library for Ruby" 6 September, 2008
URL: http://planb-security.net/packetfu
"Monkeyspaw: The Greasemonkey Security Professional's Automated Webthinger" (Code) 4 August, 2006
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/userscripts/#monkeyspaw
"Phishing Detection and Prevention: Practical Counter-Fraud Solutions" 15 August, 2005.
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/wp/503167-001_PhishingDetectionandPrevention.pdf
"Snacktime: A Perl Solution for Remote OS Fingerprinting." (Code) 22 June, 2003.
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/wp/snacktime.html
"Plan B: Security, Technology, and the Law"
URL: http://www.planb-security.net/
"BreakingPoint Labs Blog"
URL: http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/authors/tbeardsley
Speaking Experience
Lone Star Ruby Conf, 2008
"PacketFu with Ruby"
TippingPoint DVCast, 2006-2008
"Weekly Digital Vaccine Podcat," a technical podcast for TippingPoint DV subscribers.
Black Hat Briefings, 2006
"Investigating Evil Websites with Monkeyspaw: The Greasemonkey Security Professional's Automated Webthinger"
RSA Conference, 2006
"Phishing: Defensive Strategies and Countermeasures"
SummerCon, 2005
"Trolling for Skank: A Phishing Primer"
Missouri State Bankers' Symposium, 2005
"Directions in Online Fraud"
Other Professional Distinctions
Member of the IEEE (2008 - 2009)
Founding Member of Austin Hackers Anonymous! (2006)
Nominee for 3Com's "Innovator of the Year" award (2005)
Advisory board member of the GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst program (2002-2004)
Education
University of Redlands
Major field of study: Pre-Law (1992)
Austin Community College
Major field of study: Computer Science (2007)
Civic Positions
Travis County Election Judge, 2004 - 2008
Vice-President and Director of Sarah's Creek Homeowners Association, Inc. 2007 - 2008
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Work Experience
Austin, TX
(February, 2008 - Present)
Security Researcher for BreakingPoint's Strike Team
Research and reverse open and proprietary application protocols to implement as BreakingPoint AppSim modules
Provide independent technical expertise on recent events both internally and externally
Develop exploits targeting known and "zero day" vulnerabilities for BreakingPoint Strikes
Produce open source software for the network test and security community at large
TippingPoint Technologies, a division of 3Com | Austin, TX
(July, 2004 - February, 2008)
Senior Engineer for TippingPoint's DVLabs
Lead counter-fraud engineer, responsible for R&D for anti-phishing product enhancements
Produced exploit and vulnerability filters for the TippingPoint IPS product line
Dell, Inc. | Austin, TX
(August, 2000 - July, 2004)
Lead intrusion detection analyst and engineer
Develop methods and tools for global penetration testing
Research, publish, and present enterprise standards for system host hardening
Source W (a Westinghouse company) | Trafford, PA
(November, 1999 - August, 2000)
Manager of first level IT support and asset management team
Maintain and expand entire networked environment and services
Develop alerting infrastructure for all servers and network devices
Angstrom, Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA
(February, 1998 - November, 1999)
Secure baseline ISP services (SMTP, NNTP, IRC, customer web sites)
Onsite network and security consulting for small business customers
Telerama Public Access Internet | Pittsburgh, PA
(October, 1997 - February, 1998)
Day-to-day ISP customer and service support
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